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- Bowd99, on 11/10/2009, -5/+506Dammit, where will I go for my penis enlargement needs and Nigerian business deals now?!
- DavidChouinard, on 11/10/2009, -12/+412In other news: New botnet increases world spam by 33%
One disappears, others appear. Spam never stops. - fishwithaki, on 11/10/2009, -0/+292Great to see a computer company actually fight this, instead of profiting from it. Nice job FireEye!
- ww3ace, on 11/10/2009, -13/+223People still get spam mail? Wow, gmail spoils me
- JoshyLeeArm, on 11/10/2009, -0/+184'Bout damn time.
- WarFreak131, on 11/10/2009, -1/+163Here's how you can make this story more interesting, replace "botnet" with "skynet", "FireEye" with "John Connor", and "spam" with "robots".
Modified excerpt:
After carefully analyzing the machinations of the massive Skynet, alternately known as Mega-D and Ozdok, John Connor last week launched a coordinated blitz on dozens of its command and control channels. The channels were used to send new robot instructions to the legions of zombie machines that make up the network.
That is infinitely cooler. - mikemx7f, on 11/10/2009, -0/+132Hey, that is still a net decrease of over 10%.
- agbullet, on 11/10/2009, -7/+132Oh please. You still get it. You just don't *see* it.
- Omeganon, on 11/10/2009, -2/+117As an admin for a system blocking 3+ million messages a day, I didn't notice a thing. Mail counts have been consistent the last 5 weeks or so with a slight upward trend. Seems like the botnet had long since stopped sending spam and was idle/abandoned/dead/unmonitored by it's owners. In that light, their accomplishment doesn't seem to be so much of one...
- emkaysmith, on 11/10/2009, -2/+99Well, if you send out a billion emails, and only one-thousandth of 1% reply, . . . that's still 10,000 suckers you can potentially fleece. Pretty good odds, actually.
- Solkre, on 11/10/2009, -1/+80Because somewhere in those millions of emails, some dumbass buys something.
- Ac1115, on 11/10/2009, -0/+73A for content, but it needs more typos and misspellings
- ldkronos, on 11/10/2009, -1/+74Dear Sir,
My name is Mr. Abdullah Sami. I am writing to you respectfully with most urgent and confidential business proposal. I am shipping manager for the large distributor of enhancement male products in Sudan. Due to difficulties with most difficult local government, we are currently unable to ship our inventory to much needing customers. This provides difficulties because our warehouse is full. However, we have found a way to we ship our products through American address. However, we need to setup business documents and location in US. Unfortunately we have no workers in your country that can do this. This is why I am writing to you with most urgent proposal. We are in needing of someone to take this job for us, and we hope you can help by performing this. We have contacted an agent who can help set this up, but to do so he will need payment of $4000 for license and paperwork processing (your government can be difficult to it seems). If you would be most willing to help in urgent matter, we would be happy to make you business partner. As partner, you would be entitled to 10% of our sales of $21,000,000 dollars USD. In addition, we'd also provide you with a small sampling of our inventory of male enhanced products.
Please contact me if you would be willing to help in this problem. I most urgently hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely, Mr Abdullah Sami - timschuit, on 11/10/2009, -3/+71I don't get the purpose of spam mail. How is anyone making money from it? Most of the spam I get these days is so garbled it barely contains any english at all, amidst the hundreds of symbols and numbers used to get past spam filters.
Is there anyone on the planet left, who actually MAKES PURCHASES after being enticed by spam??? There must be some real tiny penises out there... - fandyboy, on 11/10/2009, -0/+68So where can I buy Dragon Age?
- dstz, on 11/10/2009, -1/+69To be seen is kind of the point of spam mails. I doubt that many spammers think "I'm in 5 million gmail spam bins, great success"
- Azuvector, on 11/10/2009, -1/+58I believe you have that backwards.
- slashdotordigg, on 11/10/2009, -0/+48You just aced a test for a Nigerian Scammer Certification program. Now you just pay me $1000 to claim your diploma!
- Homerr, on 11/10/2009, -2/+47Line the spam admins up against a wall and shoot them.
- BubblesTheChimp, on 11/10/2009, -1/+45Mr Sami,
This sounds like a lucrative deal. I'm glad I signed on to digg.com today or else somebody else might have beaten me to the punch.
Please contact me at george.samin@gmail.com. Please deposit these funds to my account at Wachovia at account number 8875224-80001. My SSN (in case they ask you to verify the account) is 574-12-0015.
I look forward to doing business with you. - Arghblarg, on 11/10/2009, -0/+42I give it a week until we hear FireEye's entire network has been melted into rubble by a mysterious DDoS on their company.. remember Bluefrog? Yeah, the spammers killed them pretty good once they found out their spamfighting was actually a threat.
- LRG1, on 11/10/2009, -3/+43Bot damn time
- agbullet, on 11/10/2009, -0/+39I read that as lemon party and cake (which as everyone knows, is a lie... leaving only the lemon party.)
- bmcnally, on 11/10/2009, -1/+40You don't get spam because engineers spend long hours fighting it, not because it isn't there.
- mkriss5681, on 11/10/2009, -0/+38Damnit! Where will I ger my low price √!@g®Á?
- diwen, on 11/10/2009, -0/+35Spam. Spam never changes.
- dark1587, on 11/10/2009, -1/+35It's like playing virtual whack-a-mole. You whack one only to have another show up. Only way to win is to follow the money and cut off the snake at the head.
- InactiveUser, on 11/10/2009, -1/+33You probably could considering where they are from..
- Frostek, on 11/10/2009, -4/+34Try harder.
You could have said "100% of them were using inherently-insecure operating systems like Windows" if you really wanted to provoke a decent response. - thatonekid393, on 11/10/2009, -2/+31I wonder if it'll make a difference...we can only hope.
- xrexracerx, on 11/10/2009, -1/+28Moles eat beets.
Beets.
Bears.
Battlestar Galactica. - dirtyword, on 11/10/2009, -3/+28bot spam crime
- TechnoRabbit, on 11/10/2009, -0/+23That's how Boomhauer from King of the Hill gets his dates. Ask enough women and one will finally say yes.
- Omeganon, on 11/10/2009, -0/+22Try to understand what we're saying instead of looking like an *****.
As admins of those servers, we know the counts of those messages blocked by those 'already deployed blacklists'. It's a trivial matter to count and trend that information over time. _The counts have not gone down_, ergo, we were not blocking anything coming from that botnet to begin with. The implication is that they either were not sending anything in the past weeks/months or were not sending anything of substantial volume. - Raumschiff, on 11/10/2009, -1/+23"as a lady". Yeah right. This is Digg. Nice try dude.
- Frostek, on 11/10/2009, -1/+23My favourite part was where the snake has his head cut off.
(Although I'm not sure how snakes relate to whack-a-mole.) - TedTschopp, on 11/10/2009, -0/+21And when you get a live one, you add it to your list of online idiots and you target them with more fun stuff.
- Cglass, on 11/10/2009, -0/+21My gmail gets 100s of spams a week.
I haven't had ONE of them make it past the filter in about 2 years. - sjones, on 11/10/2009, -0/+18Same:
http://imgur.com/Q4okO.png - fandyboy, on 11/10/2009, -0/+18http://www.419eater.com/
Playing the scammers at their own game. - Omeganon, on 11/10/2009, -0/+16google : "spam purchases". This is why --
"29% of Internet Users Buying Goods From Spam"
"Viagra spam brings bulging returns of more than $4,000/day" - inactive, on 11/10/2009, -1/+17Dugg for getting the numbers right.
- AngelBunny, on 11/10/2009, -0/+15I should make a 'pimp my news article' plugin for firefox that does just this. Awesome!
- inadequacydog, on 11/10/2009, -6/+20Increases by 50%, get your math right :)
- Omeganon, on 11/10/2009, -1/+15"Most spam would go away with a combination of domain whitelisting and blacklisting (using trusted, distributed sources),"
You're already starting off wrong here with the whitelisting.
"and hard-failures on SPF/SenderID where the record fails to match or isn't defined."
SPF/SenderID are not anti-spam measures; they're anti-forgery measures. They say nothing about whether a message is spam or not. Both also break commonly used things like forwarding and listservs (and SRS sucks).
"Legitimate originating domains would have no problem setting these things up"
Nor do the spammers. You think spammers don't/can't use SPF? I say you don't know what you're talking about.
"and spam-generating domains would either not be on the necessary whitelists, or they would quickly get onto blacklists."
Like Google.com, hotmail.com, yahoo.com, <anyothersystemwithcompromisedaccounts>.com?
Spammers are beginning to test their nuclear option, and it isn't direct-from-compromised hosts. The worst case scenario is spammers using those compromised machines to send through the SMTP server of the provider, using the credentials of the user of the compromised machine. In your scenario, it's permitted, trusted and whitelisted.
Good luck with that. - damnshoes, on 11/10/2009, -3/+16john claude van damme!
- AngelBunny, on 11/10/2009, -1/+14Some 16 year old woke up today and was PISSED!
- UselessTrivia, on 11/10/2009, -0/+12Can't they just start controlling it again? I mean the network of zombified computers is still out there, still compromised, right? What's to stop them or someone else from picking up the pieces again?
I'd be interested to see the technical details of how they stopped it. - _skin_, on 11/10/2009, -0/+11I hope I stop getting all of these delivery failure notifications.
- FlyingSquidwolf, on 11/10/2009, -3/+14....same with BitTorrent Trackers :)
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